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Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World /
The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. Wesley C. Salmon describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation--the epistemic, modal,...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t 1. Scientific Explanation: Three General Conceptions -- |t Introduction -- |t Explanation versus Description -- |t Other Types of Explanation -- |t Laplacian Explanation -- |t Three Basic Conceptions -- |t An Outline of Strategy -- |t 2. Statistical Explanation and Its Models -- |t Introduction -- |t Inductive-Statistical Explanation -- |t The Statistical-Relevance Approach -- |t 3. Objective Homogeneity -- |t Epistemic Relativization -- |t Randomness -- |t Homogeneity -- |t Some Philosophical Applications -- |t Some Philosophical Reflections -- |t 4. The Three Conceptions Revisited -- |t The Epistemic Conception -- |t The Modal Conception -- |t The Ontic Conception -- |t How These Conceptions Answer a Fundamental Question -- |t Conclusions -- |t 5. Causal Connections -- |t Basic Problems -- |t Two Basic Concepts -- |t Processes -- |t The 'At-At' Theory of Causal Propagation -- |t 6. Causal Forks and Common Causes -- |t Conjunctive Forks -- |t Interactive Forks -- |t Relations between Conjunctive and Interactive Forks -- |t Perfect Forks -- |t The Causal Structure of the World -- |t Concluding Remarks -- |t 7. Probabilistic Causality -- |t Introduction -- |t The Sufficiency/Necessity View -- |t Statistical Relevance and Probabilistic Causality -- |t Causality and Positive Relevance -- |t Causal Processes and Propensities -- |t 8. Theoretical Explanation -- |t Introduction -- |t Causal Connections and Common Causes -- |t Explanatory versus Inferential Principles -- |t The Common Cause Principle and Molecular Reality -- |t The Explanatory Power of Theories -- |t Empiricism and Realism -- |t 9. The Mechanical Philosophy -- |t Logic versus Mechanisms -- |t Explanation in Quantum Mechanics -- |t Explanation and Understanding -- |t The Causal/Mechanical Model -- |t The Final Contrast -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. Wesley C. Salmon describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation--the epistemic, modal, and ontic. He argues that the prevailing view (a version of the epistemic conception) is untenable and that the modal conception is scientifically out-dated. Significantly revising aspects of his earlier work, he defends a causal/mechanical theory that is a version of the ontic conception. Professor Salmon's theory furnishes a robust argument for scientific realism akin to the argument that convinced twentieth-century physical scientists of the existence of atoms and molecules. To do justice to such notions as irreducibly statistical laws and statistical explanation, he offers a novel account of physical randomness. The transition from the "reviewed view" of scientific explanation (that explanations are arguments) to the causal/mechanical model requires fundamental rethinking of basic explanatory concepts. | ||
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| 546 | |a In English. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Science |x Methodology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Science |x Philosophy. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. |2 bisacsh | |
| 653 | |a Aristotle. | ||
| 653 | |a Bohr, Niels. | ||
| 653 | |a Bromberger, Sylvain. | ||
| 653 | |a Compton scattering. | ||
| 653 | |a Davisson-Germer experiment. | ||
| 653 | |a Humean problems. | ||
| 653 | |a Jackson, Reggie. | ||
| 653 | |a King, John L. | ||
| 653 | |a Laplacian explanation. | ||
| 653 | |a action-by-contact. | ||
| 653 | |a aleatory explanation. | ||
| 653 | |a alpha radiation. | ||
| 653 | |a behaviorism. | ||
| 653 | |a bone, worked. | ||
| 653 | |a cancer. | ||
| 653 | |a carriage accident. | ||
| 653 | |a causal relation. | ||
| 653 | |a collective (von Mises). | ||
| 653 | |a contrast class. | ||
| 653 | |a disjunctive dilution. | ||
| 653 | |a effective calculability. | ||
| 653 | |a energeticism. | ||
| 653 | |a epidemiology. | ||
| 653 | |a expectation. | ||
| 653 | |a explanans-partition. | ||
| 653 | |a explanans. | ||
| 653 | |a first signal, light as. | ||
| 653 | |a forecast, reliable. | ||
| 653 | |a gambling system. | ||
| 653 | |a gravitational radiation. | ||
| 653 | |a high probability requirement. | ||
| 653 | |a homogeneity. | ||
| 653 | |a ignorance. | ||
| 653 | |a improbable event. | ||
| 653 | |a inferential version. | ||
| 653 | |a lambda-definability. | ||
| 653 | |a leukemia. | ||
| 653 | |a logical empiricism. | ||
| 653 | |a magnifying glass. | ||
| 653 | |a materialism. | ||
| 653 | |a microphysical entities. | ||
| 653 | |a microscope. | ||
| 653 | |a mononucleosis. | ||
| 653 | |a necessary connection. | ||
| 653 | |a nonrandomness. | ||
| 653 | |a operationism. | ||
| 653 | |a pair production/annihilation. | ||
| 653 | |a partial entailment. | ||
| 653 | |a plausibility. | ||
| 653 | |a presupposition. | ||
| 653 | |a psychotherapy. | ||
| 653 | |a quantum domain. | ||
| 653 | |a recursiveness. | ||
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